Recently, we covered a story about IBM making a transistor that switched at 500GHz thanks to cooling to -451F (see our previous coverage). In that article, I mentioned the gate switching speed and the extremely cold temperature; however, it appears many in the I.T. journalistic community did not stop there.

Jon tells in the link below how he almost couldn't stand some of the coverage. People were talking about 500GHz CPUs, and how cellphone chips only operate at 2.0GHz, etc.

It's interesting how a news item gets picked up and carried across the Internet. All have their own take on it and add their own flavor on it. I like to take the idea of something and extend it somewhat for discussion purposes. I find those mental excercises interesting. Still, it is easy to get misled by the focus of an article if a reader is only paying gloss-over attention. However, ChipGeek readers have never been guilty of that. :)

Read more of Jon's diatribe at ArsTechnica, and post your comments on additional commentary added to news items.

USER COMMENTS 10 comment(s)

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WOW(11:11am EST Fri Jun 23 2006)lolbla has stooped to pointing out the blatantly obviousa bloated os will slow down your pc.. you don't say.. gosh bla did you have to think real hard on that one?I think bla just posts to see himself posting. sad really- by BLA = SLOW

who cares(4:44pm EST Fri Jun 23 2006)the most interesting thing here is just how stupid bla really is to post some of his thoughts and opinions.

Somone should perform a science experiment on bla and see if we kind find a cure for this level of stupidity because he is way beyond retarded.

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